Jules Mascaron

Paris confirmed the judgment of the provinces; in 1666 he was asked to preach before the court and became a favourite of Louis XIV, who said that his eloquence was one of the few things that never grew old.

[1] In 1671, he was appointed the bishop of Tulle; eight years later he was transferred to the larger diocese of Agen.

His style is strongly tinged with préciosité and his chief surviving interest is as a glaring example of the evils from which Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet delivered the French pulpit.

[1] Six of his most famous sermons were edited, with a biographical sketch of their author, by the Oratorian Borde in 1704.

[1] One his most famous books, which went into several editions, was La Mort et les Dernieres Paroles de Seneque Lyon, 1653.